Same energy:
https://youtu.be/Jpuqmjd12lg

Title: I Got My Own AS Number. Here's: What It Took

I skimmed over your posted blog. Reads like a somewhat same process.

Literally "Same, same but different" ^^

almost a /25 of IPs

How in the hell are you already using almost 126 public IPs?? Surely you condense some of those services? That must cost more than you like...

This is an awesome series, but that 20 month wait for a /24 IPv4 subnet would be unbearable to me. I'd rather just go mostly-IPv6 and maybe run NAT64 or something on a VPS to cover legacy uses.

I say this because while some are fine with waiting, I view self hosting as an act of self sufficiency and resilience, which really shouldn't be on someone else's timeline. If IPv4 subnets are the only thing holding someone who's willing and able to run an AS, I would genuinely recommend ditching IPv4 and the scarcity that comes with it, even with the translation costs elsewhere. Perfection must not become the enemy of good-enough.

I did this back in the 00s, got the /24 immediately. Wish I'd kept it going today.